Trump warns Democrats of ‘irreversible’ actions in government shutdown

Richard Cowan, David Morgan, Nolan D. McCaskill and Andy Sullivan

Washington (Reuters) -US President Donald Trump warned the Congress Democrats to allow the federal government to close at midnight at midnight, allowing the management of the management to take “irreversible” actions, including closing important programs for them.

Trump said to journalists from the White House Oval Office, “We can do things that cannot be irreversible during the closure, we can do things that are bad and irreversible by them, like cutting many people, cutting things they love, cutting their favorite programs, Tr Trump White House Oval Oval Office said.

“You all know Russell Vought,” Trump added to the management and budget office manager. He continued: “It has been very popular lately because it can put the budget to a level you can’t do in any other way.” Trump did not specify the actions he could do, but recently increased the likelihood of even more disdaining the federal labor force.

At midnight, the Republicans and Democrats in Congress will enter the 15th government closure since 1981, unless 1981, unless the Republicans and Democrats in Congress temporarily finance the federal institutions with the beginning of a new financial year on Wednesday.

However, he did not point to such a conclusion.

The Senate, under the control of the Republic, is expected to vote for a temporary bill that once failed, and no sign that the second vote will succeed before the deadline (0400 GMT Wednesday).

The Democrats want to change the bill to increase their health benefits for millions of Americans who need to end at the end of the year. Republicans say that they should deal with this issue separately.

Budget reckoning became a routine feature in Washington, because the country’s politics has grown more and more dysfunctional, but often solved at the last minute. The government was closed for 35 days in 2018 and 2019 in the first period of Trump due to disagreement about migration.

Trillion dollar fight

The government, which has roughly one -quarter of the government’s total of $ 7 trillion -dollar budget, finances $ 1.7 trillion dollars. Most of the rest of them go to health and pension programs and interest payments related to the increasing debt of $ 37.5 trillion.

In the meantime, federal agencies, scientific research, customer service and other necessary activities that carry out detailed plans to close the offices, and the congress, the financing period before the end of the end of a correction sent thousands of workers home.

Budget experts warned that some Americans can already feel the flagging.

Jonathan Burks, a healthcare expert in the two -party policy center, had to find boarding facilities when potentially broken for “acute hospital care” at home. “This is a real deterioration as we’ve talked about,” he said.

The authority added that Medicare’s repayments for the medical visits of the waste will be expired at midnight.

Airlines warn that a closure can slow down flights, while the Ministry of Labor said that the monthly unemployment report would not publish an close -watched economic health barometer. The Environmental Protection Agency said that he would suspend some pollution cleaning efforts, and the small business administration said he would stop lending.

The longer a closure lasts, the wider the effect becomes.

According to two -sided policy center experts, mass housing subsidies for low -income families can be shrinkable and some operators start early training programs for children of low -income families.

Deep Prefes Video

On Monday, a White House meeting between Trump and Congress leaders did not agree. Trump watched a deep cheese video showing the manipulated images of Democrat Senate leader Chuck Schumer, who criticized the democrats. The best democrat Hakeem Jeffries stood next to him, applied roughly a sombrero and a mustache face.

Speaking to journalists outside the US Capitol, Jeffries answered Trump’s post: “When there is something to say about me, break with a racist and fake AI video. When I return to the oval office, tell me to my face.”

Any last -minute agreement will have to be approved by the republic -controlled house that is not collected until Wednesday after the end of the funds.

Management threatens to dismiss more

Trump’s desire to ignore the expenditure laws implemented by the congress injected more uncertainty and threatened to liquidate the federal labor force if the government allowed the government to close.

In spring, federal agencies ordered to ignite the “unnecessary” employees to be ordered not to work during a closing.

Trump also refused to spend billions of dollars approved by the Congress and asked some democrats to question why they had to vote for any expenditure legislation. Although the Republicans control both their rooms of the Congress, they need at least seven democratic voters to remove the legislation from the Senate.

In addition to expanded health subsidies, the Democrats tried to make sure that Trump would not be able to get these changes back if they were signed in the law.

The democrats locked out of power in Washington are under pressure from their disappointed supporters who have been disappointed to win a rare victory before the 2026 midterm elections, which will determine the control of the Congress for the last two years of Trump’s era. Health service gave them the chance to unite behind a problem that resonates with voters.

Nevertheless, some of the party questioned whether it was worth taking the risk of closing.

Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman told reporters, “This is not about politics or is accused of it. Millions of Americans,” he said.

(Reporting by Richard Cowan, Courtney Rozen, David Morgan, Nandita Bose, Andy Sullivan and Bo Erickson;